Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee continue to remain mute thus enabling continuous repetition of Russia-Trump conspiracy theories for which no evidence has been provided. “Bipartisanship” means the Republican Party exists only to protect and defend the Democrat and media monopoly-Wall St. Journal, Kimberley Strassel, opinion

All this leaves Mr. Warner free to act as the Senate’s resident conspiracy theorist, but with the veneer of respectability—the grown-up version of Rep. Adam Schiff. In recent weeks Mr. Warner has painted the lurid possibility of Trump-Russia collusion. He’s said that Mr. Trump “parroted” President Vladimir Putin’s policies in 2016; that the president “never spoke ill” of Russia; that the Republican Party “softened” its Russia platform; that Mr. Trump hid his Helsinki conversations with Mr. Putin last July.

Republican defenders of the committee say its primary mission was always to investigate the intelligence community’s handling of Russia’s [alleged] 2016 interference—and that it has already issued two reports—one on the community’s assessments, the other on election security.